List of Therapists

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North / North West London

Dr. Claire Asherson Bartram BA (prof orgs UKCP, EAGT, AHPP) is a Gestalt based integrative psychotherapist, supervisor and group leader practising in Highgate. She has a personal connection with and professional interest in stepfamilies and has been writing, researching and running groups and workshops on stepfamily issues since 1995. She has recently completed her doctorate 'Narratives of Mothers in Stepfamily Situations'. 020 8361 6146 email: Claire Bartram website: Gestaltworks

Amely Becker (prof orgs UKCP, EAGT, AHPP) has been drawing much of her life's orientation and inspiration from the Gestalt perspective and methodology, and also from Eastern thought, mainly through Tibetan Buddhism. She completed her Gestalt Psychotherapy training in the late 80's at the Gestalt Cetnre London, and has since then maintained a private practice. Amely has experience in working with clients who were adopted and who grew up in stepfamilies. She herself had a stepfather as a child. 020 8348 6253

Sue Fox (prof orgs UKCP, CAP) is a psychotherapist in private practise based in Northwest London and a trainer, supervisor and group worker at the Institute of Psychosynthesis and Highgate Counselling Centre. She has many years experience of working with families and individuals who have been effected by addiction. Her interest in step families has arisen from both her personal and professional life. 0207 424 9007 email Sue Fox
website: www.Sue-Fox.com

Debbie Friedman MA (prof org UKCP) is a psychotherapist working in NorthWest London. She is a trainer and supervisor at the Institute of Psychosynthesis, London. She has a background in the creative arts, many years experience of psychotherapy and has had a long standing interest in stepfamily dynamics. 020 8458 5760 email: Debbie Friedman

Sally-Ann Lipson has been a counsellor and therapist working in private practice in North London. She has been part of a stepfamily for almost thirty years and has a particular interest in supporting parents and children through difficult transitions. 07977 273 721 email: sa@thelipsons.co.uk

Graham Shavick MA UKCP is a counsellor, psychotherapist and coach practising in North Finchley and Central London. He previously worked for a MIND organisation, as a bereavement counsellor at a hospice and at the Arbours Crisis Centre. He has personal experience of stepfamily life and wrote a dissertation on men's experiences of their relationships with their children and stepchildren and the meanings they attach within these relationships. 07734 297637 email: Graham Shavick website www.gramshavickcounselling.co.uk

Angelika Wienrich BA has a background in Psychology and Research. She is a Gestalt based integrative Psychotherapist and has been practising, and teaching for over 20 years in the field of counselling and personal development. She worked in the NHS and was a tutor at the Gestalt Centre in London for 15 Years. She is also involved with teaching creative writing and Playback Theatre. Her interest in stepfamily issues are both personal and professional. 07941156205 email: Angelika Wienrich

Keren Smedley is an accredited member of the British Association of Coaching and Psychotherapy, and Member of the Association for Coaching. She has been practicing for over 25 years. She has a particular interest in working with the 50-plus and has found the issues of step-parenting and step-grandparenting increasingly being raised in both counselling and coaching sessions. She has a personal as well as professional interest in step families. 0208 347 6260 email: Keren Smedley, www.experiencematters.org.uk

West London

Jon Blend MA (prof org UKCP) is a Gestalt Psychotherapist and Associate Counsellor with BUPA. He works with children, adolescents and parents at an NHS Family Consultation Service and in private practice in Acton/Ealing. Jon has a background in social work and creative and performing arts. He has a particular interest in fathering issues and enjoys being a step- parent. 020 8992 1982 email Jon Blend

Joan Wilmot (also Scotland) is a therapist working with individuals and couples in both London and Scotland. She is a co-founder and active member of Findhorn Playback Theatre and co-author of "the Boxing Clever Cookbook". She has a personal connection with stepfamilies in both her family of origin and her own family. 0207 727 0702; 07974 115 028 joan.wilmot@cstd.co.uk

Hertfordshire

Chris Kell BA,CQSW, Dip.Clling. is a Senior Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her interest in step-families arises from her own experience as co-parent with the father and step-mother of her daughter, over a period of 30 years. Since qualifying as a counsellor in 1986, she has trained as a family mediator, couple therapist, adoption counsellor and sexual minorities therapist. She has a private practice in Buntingford, Herts, on the A.10 between London and Cambridge. 01763-273321 www.ckcounselling.co.uk

Gillian Marchant P. G. Dip Couns MBACP is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and practices under their Ethical Framework for Good Practice. Her desire to work with step families comes from being a step-mother herself and recognising the very unique situation members of step families face. Gillian works one to one with step parents as well as step children and practices in Letchworth. 07772 754 063 email@gillianmarchant.com

Scotland

Joan Wilmot - see entry under West London.

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